• SOFTBALL

SPIRIT LAKE — It was a day for pitching, outside of that one swing.

Junior Logan Walsh hit a a two-run home run in the fourth inning for Timberlake, which held off the St. Maries Lumberjacks 2-0 in a nonleague game on Wednesday at Timberlake High.

“It was a pitcher’s duel for sure,” Timberlake coach Casi Lupinacci said. “Acacia (Pecor) threw really well for us and our defense played really well behind her.”

Both Pecor and St. Maries senior Taci Watkins struck out 10.

“Seeing a pitcher like Taci is super helpful for us,” Lupinacci said. “We tried to stack our schedule and got to play most of the 4A and 5A schools around here. In the past, we haven’t been ready for the kind of speed Taci can throw with at our level, and hopefully this gets us ready. Seeing her this close to districts just helps that much more.”

Timberlake (13-7) opens the best-of-3 3A District 1 championship series at home against Bonners Ferry on Monday.

St. Maries (16-4) travels to Genesee to conclude the regular season on Friday.

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Timberlake 000 200 x — 2 5 2

Taci Watkins and Brenna Elliott; Acacia Pecor and Logan Walsh.

HITS: SM — Mitchell, Spray, Brebner. TL — Dykes, Walsh, Grantham, Pecor, Cameron. 2B — Grantham. HR — Walsh.

• BASEBALL

Timberlake 14

St. Maries 4

SPIRIT LAKE — Seniors Cooper Lenz and Raj Olivieri drove in three runs each for the Tigers in a nonleague win over the Lumberjacks.

Lenz, Grant Allaway, Parker Holly and Jesse O’Connor scored two runs each for Timberlake (10-11), which opens the best-of-3 game 3A District 1 championship series on Monday in Bonners Ferry.

“Took us a couple of innings to get rolling,” Timberlake coach Bryce Johnson said. “It was senior night and took us a while to settle down and we were able to get the bats going in the third inning. Kenny’s offspeed pitches were on point and the breaking ball was effective tonight. It was good to see that from him.”

Riley Abell, Kody Tefft and Trey Gibson had an RBI each for St. Maries (7-13), which travels to Genesee to conclude the regular season on Friday.

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Timberlake 006 53 — 14 14 2

Game called with one out in bottom of 5th inning due to 10-run rule.

Brock Anderson, Landen Holmes (3) and Dillon Holder; Kenny Wells and Caden Robinett.

HITS: SM — W. Holmes, Abell 2, Marsh, L. Holmes, Tefft, Gibson. TL — Lenz 3, Wells, Allaway, Robinett 3, Holly 2, Armes 2, Olivieri 2. 2B — Abell, Wells.